Tape Ark will transfer UK Meteorological Office data from magnetic tapes to the cloud, in one of the biggest ever data migrations.
has drafted a Perth-based start-up to help it transfer the British Meteorological Office’s files from old-school magnetic data tapes to the cloud, in one of the biggest data migrations in history.
The Perth startup’s founder Guy Holmes expects more organisations to follow the Met Office’s lead and move unexplored data sets from legacy tape to the cloud. The off-site storage was not infallible. Storage provider Iron Mountain lost all records at one of its London locations in a fire in 2006, and from time to time, mischievous interns, employees or third parties have stolen a company’s tapes.Mr Holmes’ past clients are an eclectic mix. He has moved tapes that NASA’s Apollo missions recorded on the moon – tapes that were discovered gathering cobwebs at Curtin University.
When a data tape comes in, Tape Ark first photographs the tape using a camera with mirrors to reflect all sides. It also extracts metadata from tapes with radio-frequency identification chips.
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